• I am trying to create users for my multisite. In another multisite I have, I can create usernames as <first>.<last>. However, in this new multisite, I get the error, “Only lowercase letters (a-z) and numbers are allowed.” What can I do to fix this so I can create user names with a period?

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    Are you making them from the front end or the wp-admin back end? You SHOULD be able to override it from wp-admin.

    Thread Starter chaplaindoug

    (@chaplaindoug)

    Not sure what you mean by front end and back end. I am logged into the network as a super admin using url/login

    How do I get in as wp-admin and override as you put it?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    Visit yourdomain.com/wp-admin/network/

    add a user from that page.

    The ‘front’ end of your site would be domain.com/wp-signup.php 🙂

    Thread Starter chaplaindoug

    (@chaplaindoug)

    I use http://www.website.org/login to login. Is that taking me to the “front end”?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    That you don’t know the difference between the front and back ends of WordPress is a little worrying, because this is one of the simpler points of WordPress.

    Front end: What non logged in users see. Your ‘site’

    Backend: The dashboard. What logged in users can access. Has all your site settings. Posts are written here etc.

    So long as you’re adding users from a URL with wp-admin in it, you’re on the BACK end of WordPress

    Thread Starter chaplaindoug

    (@chaplaindoug)

    Okay. I now understand front-end and back-end. Whenever I log into my site, using http://www.site.org/login I AM in the back-end, by your definition. Hence, it would not be possible to add users unless I was logged in and thus in the back-end. When I use http://www.site.org/login, it redirects me to http://www.site.org/wp-login.php. Once credentials are entered, I end up at http://www.site.org/wp-admin/.

    I am perplexed as to why I am having issues with this multisite and not my other multisite, which runs on the same server. Both use the same theme (twenty-twelve child) and same theme files.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    I’m going to ask this differently, so please bear with me.

    What URL are you one when you try to add a user?

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